NSF told to ease up cost-share demands

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The National Science Board, the governing body of the US National Science Foundation (NSF), has implemented a new cost-sharing policy. Under this policy, it is not permitted for NSF programme officers to negotiate down the size of a research grant without a corresponding cut in the scope of the planned research. It will also be necessary for cost sharing to be declared from the outset. There is a ban on using cost sharing as an unwritten criterion for choosing grants. This approach is intended to address worries about NSF cost-sharing practice pushing down overhead rates to levels that do not represent the full cost of research.

Management, United States. National Science Foundation

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Basic research gets bipartisan treatment

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Sens. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Bill Frist (R-TN) have formed a bipartisan group of senators that will seek political support for basic research and government-industry collaborations. The Science and Technology Caucus has already held its first meeting, which provided an opportunity for leading research administrators and industrialists to discuss their views on the government's role in technology promotion with lawmakers.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Science and technology policy, Science and state, Science policy, United States. Congress. Senate

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Universities rally against cuts in Pentagon-funded research

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The House of Representatives National Security Appropriations subcommittee has raised a storm of protest from many major US research universities by proposing a bill that will cut the Defense Dept.'s basic research budget request from $1.16 to $1.03 billion. The bill would transfer most of the money to exploratory development. A substantial amount of the basic research budget is spent at the research universities.

Federal aid to research, Government aid to research, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense

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